Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:45:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Landon C. Darkwood" <darkwood@shadow.net>
Subject: Okay, can't stand the silence....
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Here is that promised HoloNews piece on the Jedi Academy, from my own 
rewritten Darkwood Series version. (In my campaign, Adol and Maranda are 
the only of the List Jedi to join. Tenendys doesn't get invited and Balbo 
Surr refuses to come. Srath...hmmm...still thinking of an excuse. None of 
the Grey Jedi came either.)

WORDS ON A SCHOOL
by Rivoche Tarkin
Staff Reporter, Galactic HoloNews Service

YAVIN FOUR -- The sun sets behind a row of large, all-encompassing trees 
that are but one of the highlights of the Massassi temple site on Yavin 
Four, where a Rebellion Command Base once sat, in the early years of the 
Galactic Civil War. Now, a new stronghold stands there, one no less 
elegant, but no less glorious, either. It is the site of Jedi Master Luke 
Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum, as he calls it, a school in which those who 
have latent Force talent can come and develop their powers. It is a 
school that will breed the new era of the Jedi Knights.

One of the students at the school, an Adol Larynth, supposedly a friend 
of Skywalker's, seemed amused at my description of the place. 

"It's just a school," he said as he walked with me across one of the 
temple's courtyards. "Like any other school. We have our particular 
things to teach, just as any other school. Ours just happens to be a 
little more mystical than most."

"Mystical, indeed," was my reply, "especially when one considers the fact
that what comes out of this school may well hold the future of the galaxy
in its hands."

Jedi Larynth's expression was stern. "So poetic, Ms. Tarkin. It isn't 
like there aren't enough Jedi in the galaxy already. They're just having 
a seperation problem. If we could get all of the Jedi in the galaxy to 
come and convene in one spot, and then see what we've got, we wouldn't 
need a school! But so many Jedi have retired to the Unknown Regions and 
Outer Rim Worlds since the Great Purge that it becomes impossible to 
track them down. This is when the galaxy needs the Jedi to return. But, 
all the Jedi capable of returning are out communing somewhere, worrying 
about where they are and what they happen to be doing at the moment, not 
about some mystery, yes, even almost fictional, future that lies 
somewhere in deep space."

I laughed slightly, trying to see if I could shake his perfect Jedi cool. 
"Do I detect hostility toward other Jedi in your words, Mr. Larynth?"

Adol smiled. "No. I'm not putting down my Jedi brethren because they're 
inactive. In fact, by doing what they're doing they are following the 
teachings of Yoda -- trusting the Force to take them wherever they need 
to be, and not looking away to dream of saving the universe. According to 
Skywalker, Yoda said that a Jedi 'craves not adventure and excitement.' 
Unfortunately, he forgot to mention what happens to those whom adventure 
seems to seek out and find."

With that, Adol Larynth walked away, a smirk on his face, no doubt amused 
at my attempt to get _some_ strong emotion out of him. I was left looking 
across the courtyard, into a nearby jungle, pondering his words.

Finally, I concluded that there are Jedi who will become Knights and 
those who will just stay Jedi, that there is indeed a distinction in 
behavior. I also concluded that for those Jedi who want to make that 
distinction within themselves, there will always be a place in the Jedi 
Praxeum.

(Author's Note: Adol Larynth is working under the pretense that he isn't 
actually a Jedi Knight, because Luke didn't want to discourage the other 
students, even going so far as to keep Adol's lightsaber, just in case. 
Maranda is under similar guise. This sort of deception in behavior made 
Adol lose confidence in Skywalker's methods, and he and Maranda leave the 
Academy shortly after the Trilogy of the same name ends.)


"When everything seems to be going along well,
that's the perfect time to panic."
              -Voren Na'al, New Republic Historian

Captain Landon C. Darkwood 
Adol Larynth, Jedi Knight
darkwood@shadow.net; a027280t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us